From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is OpenUsability something for Emacs?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:42:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GFQti-0000B4-6T@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873bbqgwo1.fsf@vertex.dottedmag.net> (message from Mikhail Gusarov on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:23:10 +0700)
RS> One can't expect users to know about that command. In order for
RS> that to be the solution to the no-mouse problem, something on the
RS> screen needs to say how to use it.
Usability is about using things, not about learning to use
things. Would you like to have every possible Emacs keybinding shown
on the screen?
Emacs is not a GUI designed for beginning users.
It is a mistake to take a size fits all" approach to these questions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-19 15:15 Is OpenUsability something for Emacs? Lennart Borgman
2006-08-19 20:26 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-08-20 4:32 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-20 8:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-20 11:24 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-08-20 13:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 11:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-21 11:23 ` Mikhail Gusarov
2006-08-21 11:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 14:03 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-21 15:35 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-21 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-22 7:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-22 7:42 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-08-21 11:12 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-21 11:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-22 22:22 ` David Hansen
2006-08-23 2:24 ` Miles Bader
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2006-08-21 0:58 Mikiya Matsuzaka
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